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FM Frequency of the Week - 93.3 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What have you received on 93.3 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is mostly IBOC hash from WZAK 93.1 in Cleveland. I have heard the following:

WODC/Columbus, OH 'Oldies 93.3' (Oldies)
WNCD/Youngstown, OH 'CD 93.3 the Wolf' (Classic Rock)
WKQZ/Midland, MI (Rock)
On 6-10-12 I had KSJZ/Jamestown, ND via E-skip around 9:30pm local time.
 
93.3 is a good frequency for me to check on tropo conditions here in coastal Alabama. It's usually a very weak "Coast 93.3" WNCV from the Fort Walton Beach, Florida area. That's about 70 miles away. Occasionally it's WQUE "Q 93" from New Orleans.
 
Central VA is pretty much WFLS Fredericksburg all the time.
 
Zach said:
93.3 is a good frequency for me to check on tropo conditions here in coastal Alabama. It's usually a very weak "Coast 93.3" WNCV from the Fort Walton Beach, Florida area. That's about 70 miles away. Occasionally it's WQUE "Q 93" from New Orleans.
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During good tropo, you should be able to hear 93.3 FLZ from here in Tampa.

Even during regular conditions, it's heard with a listenable signal as far as Orlando.
 
In Bellingham, WA, on a VERY high quality radio, it's a noisy KUBE Seattle. On cheaper radios, it's DOUBLE splatter from 93.1 CKYE, Vancouver, BC and super strong local 92.9 KISM Bellingham.

How CKYE got wedged in so close to KISM (they're both semi-local to each other) is baffling. But the CRTC seems hell bent on shoehorning something on just about every impossible space on the Vancouver FM dial. (There's also 104.1 KAFE Bellingham next to 104.3 CHHR Vancouver - which actually swapped frequencies a few years ago in a big complicated switcheroo to accommodate 104.5 KMCQ, a Seattle move-in.) 100.3 CKKQ Victoria (which is so strong in Bellingham, you can almost smell smoke coming from your receiver), 100.5 CKPK Vancouver and 100.7 KKWF Seattle and 106.5 KWPZ Lynden (a local here), 106.3 CKAV Vancouver and 106.1 KBKS Tacoma.

And the better radios can easily pick them apart from each other. The cheap radios, not so well (KMCQ at 7,100 watts however can't be heard at all in Bellingham....)
 
In most areas of Western Washington, all I get is KUBE Seattle [Hip Hop/Rap, KUBE 93].

At Pacific Beach, WA I get KUBE, sometimes mixing with KKNU Springfield, OR [New Country 93].

In Portland, OR it's a very weak KKNU.

In Yakima, WA this is KRKL Walla Walla, WA [K-LOVE].

-crainbebo
 
gar fla said:
Zach said:
93.3 is a good frequency for me to check on tropo conditions here in coastal Alabama. It's usually a very weak "Coast 93.3" WNCV from the Fort Walton Beach, Florida area. That's about 70 miles away. Occasionally it's WQUE "Q 93" from New Orleans.
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During good tropo, you should be able to hear 93.3 FLZ from here in Tampa.

Even during regular conditions, it's heard with a listenable signal as far as Orlando.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an ear out for that now that I've heard the Tampa station on 104.7… I wouldn't have expected that sort of reception from that direction on FM previously!
 
Sometimes a very weak copy of KKNU; when it's there, it's mostly jammed by KRYP's sideband.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
What have you received on 93.3 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is mostly IBOC hash from WZAK 93.1 in Cleveland. I have heard the following:

WODC/Columbus, OH 'Oldies 93.3' (Oldies)
WNCD/Youngstown, OH 'CD 93.3 the Wolf' (Classic Rock)
WKQZ/Midland, MI (Rock)
On 6-10-12 I had KSJZ/Jamestown, ND via E-skip around 9:30pm local time.
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This is all we get on 93.3 30 miles east of Columbus. WNCI can brag that it has the city's best FM signal, but I'll take 93.3's any day.
 
Here in Charleston it is WWWZ, Z-93 Jamz (one of the most popular stations in the market, an urban). It is never off the air, so I've never gotten anything over it.
 
Here in the west Chicago burbs, nothing. When it's something, it's WLDB Milwaukee.
 
It's usually a "fight" between WBSZ Ashland, WI (69 miles) and KBLB Nisswa, MN (101 miles), both country stations, with WIZM La Crosse, WI (Z93, a CHR) at 209 miles vying for arc room between them on my APS-9B.

The only other tropo station I picked up there was KIOA, Des Moines, IA, at 353 miles, first in 2008 and several times in 2011.

As for Es:

93.3 WKYQ KY Paducah 697 06/29/10 1059
93.3 KJKE OK Newcastle 845 07/12/11 2146
93.3 WWFF TN Tullahoma 866 06/29/10 1114
93.3 WSYE MS Houston 916 06/14/02
93.3 WFLS VA Fredericksburg 954 05/11/07 1237
93.3 WVFJ GA Manchester 1024 06/14/02
93.3 KKOB NM Albuquerque 1083 08/11/08 1935
93.3 WERO NC Washington 1102 06/14/02
93.3 KGSR TX Cedar Park 1148 07/27/11 1121
93.3 KQBU TX Port Arthur 1160 07/27/11 1109
93.3 WQUE LA New Orleans 1169 07/18/06 1213
93.3 KXAZ AZ Page 1197 07/08/08
93.3 KITE TX Port Lavaca 1270 06/19/10 1030
 
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